My Personal Favorites
Below is a list of some of my all time favorites by style. This is an evolving list, and I will continue to add. As always, suggestions and criticisms welcome!
Some of the beers below have URLs embedded. Clicking on them will bring you directly to my review of the beer.
Double/Imperial IPAs
IPAs
Stouts
Sours
Gose
Porter
Trappist
Belgian Style (Dubbel, Tripel, Quad, Strong, Dark, Old)
Pilsner
Barleywine
Saison/Farmhouse Ale
American Amber/Red Ale
American Pale Ale
Lagers
Pumpkin Beers
Some of the beers below have URLs embedded. Clicking on them will bring you directly to my review of the beer.
Double/Imperial IPAs
- The Alchemist-Heady Topper
- Wormtown Hopulence
- Lawson's Liquids Sip of Sunshine
- Stone RuinTen DIPA
- Great Divide Hercules DIPA
- Firestone Walker Double Jack
- Green Flash Palate Wrecker
- Green Flash West Coast IPA
- Stone Ruination
- Trillium UPPER CASE
- Captain Lawrence Imperial IPA
- Bell's Hopslam Ale
- Avery Maharaja
- Founders Devil Dancer
- Sixpoint Hi-Res
- Sixpoint RESIN
- Bear Republic Apex Special IPA
- Stone Enjoy By IPA
IPAs
- Ballast Point Sculpin
- Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
- Maine Lunch
- Maine Another One
- Wormtown Be Hoppier
- Rogue 7 Hop IPA
- Alesmith IPA
- Dogfishhead Burton Baton
- Dogfishhead 75 Minute IPA
- Dogfishhead 90 Minute IPA
- Ithaca Flower Power IPA
- Cigar City Jai Alai
Stouts
- Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout
- Firestone Walker Parabola
- Alesmith Speedway Stout
- Dogfishhead Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
- Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break
- Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout
- Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Rye
- Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Backyard Rye
- Stone Russian Imperial Stout
- Avery Mephistopheles
- Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout
- Bell's Kalamazoo Stout
- Great Divide Yeti, Oak Aged Yeti, Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti, Espresso Oak Aged Yeti, Oatmeal Yeti
- Westbrook Mexican Cake
- Dieu Du Ciel Peche Mortel
- Founders Breakfast Stout
- Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)
- Third Rail Alternate Side brewed with Chili Peppers (Batch 1)
- Sixpoint 3Beans
- Sixpoint 4Beans
Sours
- The Bruery Sour in the Rye
- The Bruery Oude Tart
- Singlecut Kim Hibiscus Sour Lagrrr!
- Goose Island Madame Rose
- Bear Republic Tartare Rouge
- Mikkeller / To Øl Betelgeuze
- The Bruery Tart of Darkness
- The Bruery Tart of Darkness with Vanilla and Cherries
- Almanac Farmer's Reserve Strawberry
- Almanac Dogpatch Sour
- Almanac Devil's Reserve aged in Wine Barrels
- Crooked Stave St. Bretta (Autumn) Citrus Wildbier Batch 4 Blood Orange
- Crooked Stave St. Bretta (Summer)
- Grimm Rainbow Dome
- Almanac Farmer's Reserve Pluot
Gose
- The Kimmie, the Yank and the Holy Gose (Anderson Valley)
- Westbrook Gose
- Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose
- Grimm Super Going
- Lost Nation Gose
Porter
- Ballast Point Victory at Sea Coffee Vanilla Imperial Porter
- Smuttynose Robust Porter
- Sam Smith Taddy Porter
- Jack's Abby Coffee Framinghammer
- Jack's Abby Vanilla Framinghammer
- Jack's Abby Framinghammer
Trappist
- Westmalle Trappist Tripel
- Rochefort 10
- Rochefort 8
- Chimay Grand Reserve, Premiere, Cinq Cents
- St. Bernadus Tripel
- Orval
- Consendonk Pater Dubbel
- Spencer (Massachusetts)
Belgian Style (Dubbel, Tripel, Quad, Strong, Dark, Old)
- La Fin du Monde-Unibroue
- Victory Golden Monkey
- Ommegang Three Philosophers (Quad)
- Green Flash Grand Cru
- Maudite-Unibroue
- Alesmith Horny Devil
- Duvel
- Brooklyn Local 1
- Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee
- Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad
- Avery 5 Monks Quintuple
- The Bruery Sucre 6th Edition aged in Bourbon Barrels
- Wild Heaven Invocation
Pilsner
- North Coast Scrimshaw Pils
- Victory Prima Pils
- Stoudts Pils
Barleywine
- Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Barleywine (2013, 2014)
- Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine (2013, 2014, 2015)
Saison/Farmhouse Ale
- The Bruery Saison Rue
- Ommegang Hennepin
- Goose Island Sofie
- Stone Saison
American Amber/Red Ale
- Troegs Nugget Nectar
- Maine Zoe
- Maine Red Wheelbarrow
- Stone Levitation Ale
- Bell's Amber Ale
- Sixpoint Global Warmer
- Ithaca Caskazilla
- Bear Republic Red Rocket Ale
American Pale Ale
- Maine MO
- Stone Pale Ale
- Harpoon 100 Barrel Series # 50 Citra Victorious
- Third Rail Bodega Pale Ale
Lagers
- Jack's Abby Hoponius Union
- Jack's Abby Mass Rising
- Beer Camp Ballast Point-Sierra Nevada collaboration Electric Ray
- Sixpoint Crisp
- Jack's Abby Kiwi Rising Double IPL
Pumpkin Beers
- Southern Tier Pumking
- Southern Tier Imperial Rum Barrel Aged Pumking
- Avery Pump[KY]n
- Dogfishhead Punkin
- Southern Tier Warlock
- Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Stout
- Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour